Useless Quotes - Page 21

• Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Wisdom, Knowledge

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Past, Games, Evil

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.15, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural.

  Christian Louboutin

  Hate, Garden, High Heels

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• I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.

  Paul Lynde

  Happiness, Laughter, People

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• l know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Peace, Military, War

  "Duty, Honor, Country: Two Memorable Addresses".

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• There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.

  Nelson Mandela

  Peace, Government, Talking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

  John Mayer

  School, Spoons, Ends

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• A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  New York, Humorous, Car

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.107, BookBaby

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• Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can't let our circumstances or what others do or don't do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

  Joyce Meyer

  Sorry, Feelings, Energy

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• When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

  Joyce Meyer

  Blessing, Thinking, Talking

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• I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of them. I don't necessarily feel that way anymore. I'm still ambivalent, I still loathe the British class system, and the Royal family are the apex of the British class system.

  Helen Mirren

  Thinking, Class System, Royal

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• I think we were all initially swept along with the Obama win, but he's proven to be simply a set of teeth, and useless in every other regard.

  Steven Morrissey

  Winning, Thinking, Teeth

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• The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family.

  Steven Morrissey

  Important, British Monarchy, Royal

  "Morrissey Slams Kate Middleton, Prince Harry & ‘Useless’ Royal Family" by Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2012.

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• In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

  David Ogilvy

  Inspirational, Business, Creativity

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Feel Better, Games, Literature

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.103, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.

  Michael Palin

  Character, People, Accepted

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• If I'm exhausted, physically and particularly emotionally, I can't tell what's good and I can't tell what's bad and I'm useless.

  Guy Pearce

  Exhausted, Ifs, I Can

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 10, 2011.

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• Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.

  Albert Pike

  Men, Discovery, Doubt

  Albert Pike (1932). “Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry”, p.300, Lulu.com

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• All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

  Beatrix Potter

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

  Beatrix Potter (2013). “Delphi Complete Peter Rabbit Tales (Illustrated)”, p.1001, Delphi Classics

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• If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

  Dennis Prager

  Differences, Evil, Teach

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

  Pythagoras

  Silence, Hazards, Pearls

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• I'm not an easy person to love. There are lots of times when I'm a very good boyfriend, but there are times when I'm useless. I mean, I'm a mess around the house. I talk nonstop. I become obsessed with things.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Funny, Cute, Boyfriend

  "Daniel Radcliffe on Fame, Self-Doubt, and Falling in Love". Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Tunisia's responsibility, and especially that of its political and intellectual elites, is enormous. All the protagonists of the nation's social, cultural, economic and political life must work to overcome useless and counterproductive polarisation, and to find solutions to domestic, regional and international problems.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Responsibility, Political, Intellectual

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• If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

  Ramakrishna

  Practice, Brain, Desire

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.

  Martin Scorsese

  Thinking, Past, Our World

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